Coordinator of the ACOSS artist residency program Meri Tonoyan has gotten Step Beyond award of EuroCultural Foundation for travel to France and participation in the Festival.

She will stay in Larroque (http://www.rhiz.eu/location-66951-en.html) with the other invited and participating artists. As a representative of the Akos Cultural NGO, she also will promote some Armenian artists by showing their portfolios to the art professionals attending the festival, foster future cooperation between the ACOSS residency (Armenian cultural NGO), the local art community and Gallery Larroque being part of a collaborative project which aimed to develop projects involving peripheries.

There will be held also meeting of International advisers' board of the Akos on17th July, 2011 in Larroque, France.